benjhm

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

for info - lemmy even has its own beaver community - !Beavers@lemmy.world
(and plenty beavers thriving here by the Meuse in .be)

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Clearly there's a big gap between greenwash rhetoric and practical reality, but that's not unusual all over the world. The big question here is not the design of the central buildings, but whether it makes sense, as long-term sustainable development, to relocate the capital, and it seems to me there are arguments both ways. Jakarta is low-lying, literally sinking into the rising sea, and the island of Java is overcrowded - so something had to change. The new capital will lead to some deforestation on Borneo, on the other hand by bringing elites nearby they may re-evaluate the value of the jungle, it could be harder to hide destruction. The new location has potential for sea transport, but may lead to an over-dependence on air-transport.
Maybe useful to compare with other countries that moved their capital for geographical balance, and to avoid rising sea-level and overcrowding, for example Lagos to Abuja, or the new egyptian constructions SE of Cairo.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Tu as raison, ce ne sont pas des bonnes exemples, mais qu'est-ce que tu penses serait meilleur comme politique ? (c'est facile critiquer, mais le gouvernement d'espagne, dans ce cas, cherche améliorer un peu l'equilibre, il pourrait devenir pire )

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

C'est possible. Mais au moins, s'ils voyagent de façon légale pour passer telle expérience (un rêve partagé par nombreux, avant qu'il se reveille), ils auraient un peu meilleur chance défendre des droits d'emploi, et leurs familles payeraient moins aux trafiquants ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Note - that's about as many as all homes north of the Tay - so it's for export, if the cables are ready ...
I'm not opposed, on a european scale northern wind should help help balance supply of southern solar, so long as the islands benefit too.
There's also potential wave power, and tidal streams around Orkney.
Wonder what the skuas think (as I recall they're tough up there)? And whether they have yet inspired any fiddle tunes?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Also the global impact would likely be much greater, due to the co-operation factor.
On the other hand, there is a time-lag to policy impact, also exogenous surprises (superimposing past presidents on that plot may be revealing).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Scala-js is working on it - as its compiler design may facilitate this.
I haven't yet tried (on todo list) and am not an expert, but bookmarked in passing:
recent github implementation, some history, following older discussion

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This update working well for me.
So now a good moment to sort out those ±1200 tabs in ±300 stacks spread out over ±100 (mostly old) workspaces synced over 3 devices !
Since hibernating works this wasn't a drag on the system, only it’s tough to admit that I'm never going to revisit some of those hard-dug rabbit-holes ...

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Curious that the richer (western) countries seem more enthusiastic about taxing the rich ...

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Nicely written story, but I didn't really understand her motivation to follow her daughter to crowded Shanghai, leaving her home, husband and friends - does this make sense to others ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

It slows down, an effect of cold water from melting ice passing south of greenland, which has a local cooling effect, while the atlantic as a whole gets warmer. Consequence is a greater heat contrast along that front, which may intensify the sequence of low pressures bringing wind and rain, which is what Ireland has just experienced this summer. But the high-resolution models do not show that AMOC stops abruptly, that was a feature of simpler models designed to replicate palaeoclimatic changes at the end of the ice ages, when the amount of ice available to melt was much higher.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I suspect this is true in much of Europe too, although lack a dataset to check it. People underestimate the importance of changing demographics and family structures.

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